Max Raabe

This week’s picks for the San Francisco Jazz Festival. For more info on all shows, visit www.sfjazz.org.

Mavis Staples
Listen to Top 40 radio long enough and you might forget that the label â€œsoul musicâ€ once meant something. Let Staples remind you. The highly decorated vocalist, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Grammy, is still going strong at 69. Her most recent album, 2007â€™s â€œWeâ€™ll Never Turn Back,â€ focuses on the spiritual and political anthems that the singer first recorded with her famed family band, the Staples Sisters.
7:30 p.m., Oct. 15, Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, $20-$60.Continue Reading →